“We will meet all new safety regulations, no question about it” – Perodua CEO on 22 new UN regulations

At Perodua’s ‘Facilitation Scheme Briefing’ held at the Malaysia Automotive Institute (MAI) earlier today, Perodua CEO Datuk Aminar Rashid boldly claimed that the company will be able to meet the 22 new UN safety regulations set for implementation next year in Malaysia, in response to a question on the subject by this publication.

Despite not being able to reveal the more intricate details of Perodua’s plans for the future, Aminar was keen to stress that the company will work closely with its partners to ensure that the regulations do not pose a problem for the automaker’s future and current models.

“We place a lot of emphasis on safety at Perodua,” he added. “However, we are not targeting a five-star safety rating, [but] we will make sure our cars meet the new regulations, no matter what. We will continue to add on additional safety features in our cars,” he told paultan.org. The Perodua Axia scored a four-star rating in ASEAN NCAP testing earlier this year.

Following the 22 new regulations, an additional 19 will be implemented in 2017, with two more to follow by 2020. Safety systems such as Autonomous Emergency Braking, Lane Departure Warning and Enhanced Child Restraint System are among the list of tech that the new regulations will gazette.

As for the facilitation scheme, Perodua has set aside a total of RM200 million to aid vendors related to stamping and interior work for its cars. A total of 23 vendors will have to apply and meet certain conditions before the grant is provided to the respective parties.

Aminar stated that the funds were sourced internally from Perodua and nowhere else. “We raised the funds from many solutions. including ingenious ways of cost-cutting and many other methods.” The company is preparing for an optimistic year ahead – seeing as how it aims to end 2014 with a sales target of over 193,000 units.

“Today, we want to mainly address the aid in working capital and cash flow management,” Aminar said. “We want the payment term periods between vendors to drop from 60 days to 30 days and as short as 15 days in January next year.” A “soft loan” totalling RM250 million had been provided to vendors earlier this year.

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They do not design or engineer their main components such as engine and transmission in house. Perodua cars are using Daihatsu component designs. It all depends on them. The R&D of Perodua usually involved cosmetic appearance of the car itself. Not much R&D.

If they can terang terang tell us that they will not aim for 5 star (in other word, their cars will never be safe enough), i wonder why are malaysians so stupid to buy their cars. In the world of economics n business, it is always supply vs demand. If the demand for increased safety is there, they will have no choice but to provide it. If people don’t mind rubbish n unsafe cars (i.e. myvi/axia/and the rest of the family), of course they will forever be selling cars like this. Brands like Toyota are no exception either….

Malaysians are not stupid. They just don’t have much choice in terms of choices when they’re limited by the amount of money they have. It’s either you end up with no transport or a p1/p2. Supply vs demand? How to work when even the G’s NAP (just call it the National Automotive PROTECTION) is in your face?

If P2 manages to implement everything by 2016, then I salute them. Heck I’ll even buy one, if they can install Autonomous Emergency Braking, Lane Departure Warning and Stability Control in two years. Now, Proton?

Perodua is one of the best selling car manufacturers, where are all those safety feature? Why Vios doesn’t have safety feature like in City? Why? Because profit is much more important and you orang will just buy it because it is Toyota.

“We place a lot of emphasis on safety at Perodua,” he added. “However, we are not targeting a five-star safety rating, [but] we will make sure our cars meet the new regulations, no matter what. We will continue to add on additional safety features in our cars,” he told paultan.org .

It’s like a chef saying “we will make sure our foods are the best quality, we’re not targeting it to be diarrhea free, but we will make sure it is edible”.

Well the myvi facelift is set to be soon, so we’ll just see if p2 can keep their words.

“we are not targeting a five-star safety rating”…
“3 or 4 stars is enough already lah..depend your luck lo…no matter how we still the top sales in Malaysia with just 3 main models and we bit Proton…,already enough lah, Ok lah I want to go sleep…zZZzzzz”

Perodua & Proton will get away from lack of safety features cause the majority of Malaysians are living hand to mouth barely surviving. On the internet most of us prioritise safety but we are a different demographic altogether. If Malaysians were into safety the Kia Picanto would be one of the best sellers and with a RM8k discount as well.

At least Proton is trying to actually compete with the competition with equal or superior specifications. Perodua doesn’t seem to even be trying, just meeting the minimum requirements for them to be able to sell the car.

The Myvi is based on Toyota Passo and Daihatsu Boon of Japan. The Alza is based on Japan Toyota Passo Sette. In Japan they are offered with six airbags, traction control and vehicle stability control. Why aren’t these safety features being offered here? http://www.daihatsu.co.jp/lineup/boon/detail.htm

Perodua is also under the UMW group. They are greedy little bunch who wants to enrich themselves rather than the quality of lives of their customers. These safety features are already made available in Japan and would not cost much to Perodua cars, even cheaper because they’re all locally assembled in its own factory here.

I thought ABS, EBD and ESC are already in the new UN regulations?? Let see if they can at least fit ABS and EBD into the basic Axias E & G specs, and ESC on the SE & top specs. Ingenious ways of reducing costs by adding unnecessary tissue box, gadgets and ganas looking bumpers? They can just forgo those things, and replace them with safety kits.

Not targeting 5 stars mean that Perodua is actually not serious in improving the safety of its cars! How can an MD say something like that to the media. He should ask the government to give extra tax breaks for cars equipped with 6 airbags, ABS, EBD & ESC.

thats what u get when u hired some one from bumi crony, this will not happen if DAP people take charge..all will be effectively executed well..even 5 star NCAP oso no problem.
vote well in next election..vote for DAP

Can all the chinese stop dragging politics into whatever forum that not related to politics? Even though our government have financially support Proton, doesn’t mean that Proton is manage and control by our government! And so for perodua and other car manufacturers. Stop the idiot thing.

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